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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-21-07 09:02 PM
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4. I adore Yeats and love that poem. I don't believe
it's the anthem of dystopian fantasists or secular apocalyptists. And actually, it goes back even further than WWI, though you're certainly right that that conflict added to the numbers of secular apocalyptists by dint of the fact that it really did usher in a whole new world in many ways. Malthus was someone who fits the label, and he pre-dated WWI by over a century.
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  -Secular Apocalyptists, Dystopias and Christian Millenialists. cali  Oct-21-07 07:50 PM   #0 
  - Apocalypticism has been around in a "modern" form  Gman   Oct-21-07 08:15 PM   #1 
  - Sure it makes sense and  cali   Oct-21-07 08:29 PM   #2 
     - I think it was here on DU  Gman   Oct-21-07 09:04 PM   #5 
        - You're welcome. Thanks for commenting  cali   Oct-21-07 09:32 PM   #6 
           - The Malthusian error is a bum rap in some ways  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-21-07 11:24 PM   #12 
  - Secular Apocalyptists - yes, that's what we face a lot here on the DU and elsewhere wherever...  smalll   Oct-21-07 08:44 PM   #3 
  - I adore Yeats and love that poem. I don't believe  cali   Oct-21-07 09:02 PM   #4 
     - Perhaps not the anthem of dystopian fantasists, but it sure speaks to  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-21-07 09:56 PM   #9 
        - I can't stop laughing over your Bill Bennett comment.  cali   Oct-21-07 10:06 PM   #11 
  - Yup! We are solipsists by nature. We cannot really imagine the world without us, and are  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-21-07 09:45 PM   #7 
     - jeezus. you should have just written my Op for me;  cali   Oct-21-07 09:49 PM   #8 
        - It is sad but true that our inability to deal with mortality causes all this trouble  Kurt_and_Hunter   Oct-21-07 10:02 PM   #10 
 

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